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Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has offered a bounty of gold and tens of thousands of pounds to anyone who kills the US Ambassador or American soldiers in Yemen.

The terror group’s media outlet, Al-Malahem, made the offer in a video which showed a stack of gold bullion and a picture of Gerald Feierstein, the US Ambassador in Yemen. The caption said: “3,000 grams of gold [worth about £100,000] to whoever kills the jewish [sic] US ambassador in Sanaa.”

Another clip pictured a soldier in American uniform. “Five million Yemeni Riyals [£14,000] to whoever kills any american [sic] soldier in